Edith Wharton 1920
- What it is
-
A love that builds slowly · melancholic and unhurried
- Genre
- Classics Literary Romance
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
Books similar to The age of innocence
Coming from The age of innocence? Start with Normal People, The House of Mirth, Pride and Prejudice. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
11 books
The closest to yours
Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro 1994
A reader shelved it with yours in Literary fiction about everything left unsaid
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney 2017
Melancholic and unhurried · funny and sad at once
the leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1995
Sad, and in no hurry · comforting, like coming home
Bonjour tristesse
Françoise Sagan 1954
Melancholic and unhurried · funny and sad at once
Empire Falls
Richard Russo 2001
Melancholic and unhurried · tender and sad at once
Bridget Jones's Diary
Helen Fielding 1996
A love story that hurts · comedy with teeth
Seize the day
Saul Bellow 1956
Melancholic and unhurried · it tells it with no filter
Prater Violet
Christopher Isherwood 1945
Melancholic and unhurried · funny and sad at once
Sorrow and Bliss
Meg Mason 2022
Sad, and in no hurry · tender and sad at once
16 books · Alike in just one
Only melancholic and unhurried
Normal People
Sally Rooney 2018
Readers put them together in Literary fiction about everything left unsaid
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton 1905
Grouped with yours in Books with love and luxury
Stoner
John Williams 1965
Grouped with yours in Literary fiction about everything left unsaid
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh 1946
Grouped with yours in Books with love and luxury
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood 2005
Sad, and in no hurry · no clean hands here
Atonement
Ian McEwan 2001
Melancholic and unhurried · a farewell that moves you
Our souls at night
Kent Haruf 2015
A reader shelved it with yours in Literary fiction about everything left unsaid
The quiet American
Graham Greene 1955
Sad, and in no hurry · nobody is entirely good
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe 1958
Melancholic and unhurried · a big story that sweeps you along
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf 1925
Melancholic and unhurried · comforting, like coming home
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway 1952
Melancholic and unhurried · a big story that sweeps you along
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson 2004
Melancholic and unhurried · tender and sad at once
The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout 2026
Grouped with yours in Literary fiction about everything left unsaid
The Persian Boy
Mary Renault 1972
Melancholic and unhurried · tender and sad at once
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin 2022
Melancholic and unhurried · sad, but it leaves you hopeful
Saturday
Ian McEwan 2004
Melancholic and unhurried · you end up rooting for the wrong people
11 books · Alike in just one
Only wry
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen 1853
A love story that makes you laugh · a tender love story
Possession
A. S. Byatt 1890
A love story that makes you laugh · it messes with your head
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez 1997
A love story that hurts · it raises the temperature
The great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald 2011
A love story that hurts · prose worth underlining
Couples
John Updike 1968
In common with yours: slow-burn romance · nobody is entirely good
Duke and I
Julia Quinn 2000
A reader shelved it with yours in Books with love and luxury
The Course of Love
Alain De Botton 2016
Grouped with yours in Literary fiction about everything left unsaid
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson 2010
A love story that makes you laugh · a tender love story
Shipping News
Annie Proulx 1993
Like yours: slow-burn romance · it makes you laugh
Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan 2013
Grouped with yours in Books with love and luxury
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh 2019
It tells it with no filter · sharp and very funny
10 books
More similar books
North and south
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1855
Like yours: slow-burn romance · it leaves you with a warm feeling
Call Me by Your Name
André Aciman 2007
A love story that hurts · it raises the temperature
Romantic Comedy
Curtis Sittenfeld 2023
A love story that makes you laugh · a tender love story
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell 1992
Grouped with yours in Books with love and luxury
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan 2021
You come out liking people more · tender and sad at once
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson 1997
It stays with you · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Under the volcano
Malcolm Lowry 1947
It stays with you · it tells it with no filter
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier 1938
Grouped with yours in Books with love and luxury
Still hunting?
Ask other readers for books like this one
On Drayfus, a stack is a small shelf a reader hand-picked around one theme. Open one with this book and other readers vote in the titles that belong, so your list keeps growing without you.
Other stacks with this book
